Example sentences of "'d [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me an ’ Gerry 'd build up the kitchen fire and we 'd sit there and talk about what we 'd do if we won the Irish Sweepstake . |
| 2 | I 'd collect up the photos and put 'em hon the bed . |
| 3 | came from the hospital to do her midwifery and there was a boy in Wrexham Hospital he 'd give up the permanent job to go to The Yale |
| 4 | And I thought she might have come today cos she said she 'd bring up the money but she has n't , not yet . |
| 5 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 6 | We 'd ring up the police , who would take a bunch of these youths into the same exit and do'em over . |
| 7 | Many years ago — back in the early '70s , I think — Burt Reynolds called up Warren Beatty and me and formed Marriage Anonymous on the theory that if any of the three of us got tempted to get married we 'd ring up the others and we 'd go round and make them drunk . |
| 8 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 9 | They were always having a go , the hard men , those who 'd blow up the Pope if they thought it would help the cause . |
| 10 | But leading scorer Ferdinand , who 'd set up the only goal for Andy Impey , has been passed fit for the Stamford Bridge derby . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I thought we 'd set up the nice Mr Sorley and his mobile Fax van and photograph him in the act of reading other people 's mail . ’ |
| 12 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 13 | he used to go to the house and he 'd measure up the body and I |
| 14 | My school grades would plummet , I 'd become virtually anorexic and I 'd take up the oddest hobbies to please my loved one . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd go up the coffee stalls and peddle his arse for money . ’ |
| 16 | Apart from that , who 'd pass up the chance of an idle moment together ? |
| 17 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 18 | So I figured I 'd put up the five g's , get my name in the papers , maybe ease off the pressure a little . |
| 19 | I 'd come up the hard way you see . |
| 20 | ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . |
| 21 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |